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  she lived on a curve in the road  in an old tar paper shack

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  on the south side of town on the  wrong side of the tracks

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  sometimes on the way into town we say

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  mama can we stop and give her a ride

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  sometimes we did but her hands flew from her side

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 wild eyed...crazy...Mary



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  down a long dirt road  past the Parson's place

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  their old blue car  we used to race

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  a little country store, with a sign tacked to the side

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  said no L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G allowed

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  underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd



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  take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

  take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around, pass it a

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  take a bottle, drink it down, pass it a, pass it a, pass it around





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 one night the thunder cracked, mercy backed outside her windowsill

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 dreamed I was flying high, above the trees, over the hills

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 looked down into the house of Mary

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  somethings gone???, newspaper covered walls

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  and Mary rising up, above it all

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  ah...... ah......





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   next morning on the way into town  

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   we saw some skid marks and followed them around

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  over the curb, through the fields, into the house of Mary



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that what you fear the most will meet you half way

              G                       C

that what you fear the most will meet you half way

  



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  take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

  take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around, pass it a

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  take a bottle, drink it down, pass it a, pass it a, pass it around



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  Eddie 

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